Toby D. (bookswapper) reviewed on 10/23/2010 + 188 more book reviews

Third book I read by this author, most annoying secondary characters. I wanted to kill off some of the other members of this "Stud Club" of shared horse ownership, and the families of the hero and heroine (what was left of them). Can't say much for the subplots, but the family loyalty versus spouse loyalty plot was okay. Rather than super-villains, this book just had a bunch of whiny and hot-tempered secondary characters. Any of them could be villainous, at the drop of a hat, because you want to hate them and have them transported, executed, or die in a fatal shootout.

The hero and heroine, these two I mostly liked. The heroine is an atypical slightly bustier, more wall-flowerish heroine, who enjoys plotting menus and embroidery, not social reform activism. In that respect, she seems like a more believable period character. The hero is the opposite, with a weird contrived background story and unpredictable anti-social tendencies. They worked together, in a weird way balancing each other out. Would like to see more of them in a sequel, but not at the risk of needing to read more about the Stud Club.

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